Vocabulary Ch. 7-9 Flashcards
crestfallen
- feeling shame or humiliation
- “said Jack, crestfallen”
coverts
- underbrush providing cover for game
- “….if you could forget how dun and unvisited were the ferny coverts on either side,…”
glowered
- looked with annoyance or anger
- “Jack glowered.”
daunting
- discouraging; dismaying
- “The word was too good, too bitter, too successfully daunting to be repeated.”
impervious
- incapable of being affected
- “So they sat, the rocking, tapping, impervious Roger and Ralph, fuming;..”
prefect
- chief officer; monitor in private school
- “He isn’t a prefect and we don’t know anything about him.”
rebuke
- reprimand; criticize; reprove
- “Piggy gave up the attempt to rebuke Ralph.”
demure
- modest; reserved
- “black cap and ages ago they had stood in two demure rows and their voices had been the song of angels.”
fervor
- emotional intensity; passion
- “If Jack was astonished by their fervor he did not show it.”
demented
- mad; insane
- “One piglet, with a demented shriek, rushed into the sea trailing Roger’s spear behind it.”
palled
- lost its attraction
- “At length even this palled.”
corpulent
- obese; excessively fat
- “Then as the blue material of the parachute collapsed the corpulent figure would bow forward, sighing, and the flies settle once more.”
derision
- contemptuous laughter; ridicule
- “Piggy once more was the center of social derision so that everyone felt cheerful and normal.”
sauntered
- walked at a leisurely pace
- “Jack rose from the log that was his throne and sauntered to the edge of the grass.”
abominable
- detestable; unpleasant
- “It was crying out against the abominable noise something about a body on the hill.”
